Does it make sense to switch to Ubuntu?

Question

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Foreword
Good afternoon everyone, I ask for your help.
There is an old Acer Aspire One AO721-128Ki netbook with modest specifications:

• Single core Athlon II Neo K125 1700 MHz
  
• RAM 2GB
  
• Video card ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4225
  
• HDD 160GB
  

and it now has win7, but sometimes performance drops and it infuriates. I use it only for web development, when I'm too lazy to sit at the stationary, so I need all modern browsers, sublime, openoffice and sometimes watch movies.
Question
Does it make sense to switch to Ubuntu? Is it less demanding on hardware? Read on the Internet, who writes what.
Still interested in what to do if the drivers are only for Windows?

Answer 1

I can’t advise Ubuntu, when I set myself it was noticeable that the laptop heats up even from normal tasks, but I liked Mint (Cinnamon) fast and responsive. Now I'm sitting on Elementary OS, everything also flies, a nice interface, of course, sometimes lags slip through in the graphical shell itself (incomprehensible flickering when opening or closing a window).
And in principle, you don’t have to worry about the driver, when I set everything up it worked right away, without any additional installations. And the immeno touchpad (with all scrolling zones, clicks), camera, modem for the Internet and the old android 2.3.3 are also connected out of the box.
The temperature in normal mode does not rise more than 50 degrees, but on Windows 55+.
PS Note

Answer 2

You won’t get a strong acceleration
30 tabs won’t open
An improvement, only due to the convenience of bash and other tools from Linux It’s
worth adding at least another 2GB of memory

Answer 3

Maybe it's better to buy a memory bar. I also had cases of freezing by 2 GB increased the memory to 4 much better. And I advise you to turn off all the visual effects of Windows, save a little resources.

Answer 4

Yes, and it would be even better to switch to Linux Mint. In my opinion, no less demanding. Look at what the hell...

Answer 5

Personally, I would install Arch and a lightweight window manager like Openbox. Ubuntu has recently become fatter and more demanding on resources, especially Unity - a graphical shell. But Arch is a distribution for more or less experienced users, at least those who have passed KMB on Linux. Therefore, in your case, it would be optimal to install LMDE2 (Linux Mint Debian Edition) with Mate as DE. It is lighter and smarter than the Ubuntu family, while being just as loyal to teapots.

Answer 6

Thank you all, comrades!

Answer 7

Maybe it's better to buy a memory bar. I also had cases of freezing by 2 GB increased the memory to 4 much better. And I advise you to turn off all the visual effects of Windows, save a little resources.

And + ssd to fasten instead of an optical drive. Then your laptop will be just perfect for work.

Answer 8

Just recently I tried different Linuxes on my ASUS 1215P netbook. In the end, I settled on Xubuntu.
Ubuntu (Unity), Linux Mint (both Mate and Cinnamon) slow down almost more than Win 7. I
also installed the Awesome shell - here the speed increase is a cut above. But you still need to figure it out, adjust it.

Answer 9

and it now has win7, but sometimes performance drops and it infuriates.
Does it make sense to switch to Ubuntu?

If you're looking for a performance boost, look towards "lighter" software: XFCE/LXDE instead of KDE/Unity, Midori instead of Chrome, etc.
You don't get a specific answer because you don't ask a specific question.

Answer 10

Debian.

Answer 11

I also have similar characteristics - the same Acer Acpire One, only a slightly different model, and 1 GB of RAM. Win7 and Ubuntu 14 are on the laptop at the same time. Yes, Ubuntu works faster, I would even say tolerably, compared to the seven. True, everything is set to a minimum

Answer 12

I tried Ubuntu (Uniti, Cinnamon), Mint (Mate, Cinnamon) and I will say that ubuntu out of the box is terrible for weak machines, because of the unity. In general, ubuntu composes eats memory and wildly. I tested it on Celeron 2Gz, 2Gb Ram DDR2, 120Gb HDD.
I came to the conclusion that Mint is best, while Cinnamon is Mate. It really has everything for the office out of the box, I didn’t have to remove anything and almost didn’t have to install anything.
I would recommend arch to deploy, I have it ate 250mb with Mate shell :D.

Answer 13

Lubuntu

Answer 14

Linux will certainly help, but the fact that the percentage is single-core is the root of evil. For starters, I would change the laptop to some thread with a dual-core Intel, this will give a huge performance boost, but if you also have Linux later, then in general for the first time it will seem to you that everything is flying :)